Yorkshire’s biggest taxpayer has been revealed.
He is part of this year’s Sunday Times Tax List, listing 100 people who paid a total of £5.758 billion of tax.
The eighth edition of the Tax List — released as millions of people have met the self-assessment deadline at the end of January — features figures from the worlds of music and arts, high finance and the high street, as well as billionaire aristocrats and rags-to-riches entrepreneurs.
Eleven people from Yorkshire and the Humber feature on the list, mostly hailing from Leeds or Bradford, and one from Sheffield.
Top of the Yorkshire taxpayer league is Malcolm Healey, the entrepreneur behind Wren Kitchens among other companies.
He comes 39th in the taxpayer list, paying £39.1m to HMRC.
The Sunday Times says: “Considered the richest man in Yorkshire, Healey owns a vast estate near Pocklington but lives in the US. Wren is his third kitchens business.”
He previously lived at Warter Priory in Pocklington.
Big names
For the first time, gambling founders Fred and Peter Done of Betfred top the rankings, with an estimated contribution of £400.1 million, up from £273.4 million a year ago. The brothers founded the company in 1967 and it is headquartered in Warrington, Cheshire.
Former One Direction star Harry Styles is a new entry at number 54, paying £24.7 million.
Also appearing for the first time are two footballers: Manchester City striker Erling Haaland (number 72), who earns £500,000 a week plus £10 million in extras, with an estimated tax payment of £16.9 million, and Liverpool striker Mohamed Salah (number 81), whose £400,000-a-week basic salary plus an estimated £10 million in bonuses and additional payments results in a tax bill of £14.5 million.
Other familiar names on the list include Harry Potter author JK Rowling (number 36, £47.5 million or £130,000 a day), stadium-filling musician Ed Sheeran (number 64, £19.9 million) and heavyweight boxer Anthony Joshua (number 100, £11 million).
